New Mexico’s Plains of San Agustin are otherworldly: Silence, sand and sharp plants reign on the valley floor. Knobbly volcanic rock rises above. Pronghorns’ legs and jackrabbits’ ears break up the ...

The SETI Institute said this week that the Very Large Array, a National Science Foundation telescope in New Mexico, will join the hunt for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. These ...

SOCORRO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The Very Large Array (VLA) will be hosting a Spring Open House event on Saturday, April 20. The free event is open to the public and will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array is helping to collect data in the hopes of finding extraterrestrial civilizations. The nonprofit research organization the SETI Institute is ...

The search for extraterrestrial civilizations has gotten a major boost as SETI joins forces with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, New Mexico. It ...

Aug. 24—Scientists say upgrades planned for the Very Large Array in New Mexico — which recently took a step forward with a major financial award — may help answer centuries-old questions like: How did ...

The latest search for life on the headline–making exoplanet K2-18 b has come up empty. But the team says that they have developed a framework that could shape how scientists hunt for extraterrestrial ...

May 1, 2023, Mountain View, CA – One of the world’s most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation’s Karl G.

Image showing the positions of all the stars targeted by COSMIC thus far with data recorded into a database of potential signals. We have collected data on over 485,000 sources across the frequency ...

New Mexico's Very Large Array first began observing the skies in 1976 with two antennas, which were assembled on site. The facility became fully operational using all 27 antennas in 1981. Ten years of ...